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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 2, 



GEORGE W. YORK, - Editor. 



PtTBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 

 118 Mloblgan St., - CHICAGO, II^L. 



»1.00 a Year— Sample Copy Sent Free. 

 [Bntered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. 



United States Bee-Keepers' Unioii. 



Organized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture: to promote the interests 



of bee-lieepers ; lo protect its members ; to prevent the adulteration 



of honey; and to prosecute the dishonest honey-commission men. 



Membership Fee— $1.o"o Per Annum. 



Executive Committee, 



President— George W. York. Vice-Pres.— W. Z. Hutchinson. 

 Secretakt— Dr. A. B. Mason, Station B, Toledo, Obio. 



BfinrO of Uireotors, 



E. R. Root. E. Whitcomb. E. T. Abbott. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Dr. C. C. Miller, C. P. Dadant. 



General Afanag-er an€l Treasurer, 



Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



YflLfflVII. CHICA&O, ILL, DEC, 2, M No, 48, 



Editorial Cox)r)n)cr)i^^ 



Kind l^ords for the Bee Journal are con- 

 stantly received at this olHce. We wish we could publish 

 them all, but some of them are so strongly commendatory that 

 it would hardly do to give them to the public. However, we 

 wish to say to all who have so kindly exprest their apprecia- 

 tion of the Bee Jourual and Its contents, that it is a great en- 

 couragement to us, to know that our best efforts are being 

 valued by our readers. We shall continue to strive to merit 

 the approval of all who want a bee-paper that is all bee-paper, 

 and the best that we can publish ; and wish hereby to extend 

 our sincerest thanks for the kindly words and feelings Indi- 

 cated by many letters that have come and are coming dally 

 to us. 



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Death of Mr. De Layens.— Mr. Chas Dadant has 

 kindly sent us the following paragraph concerning the death 

 of Mr. George DeLayens, a noted French bee-keeper and In- 

 ventor : 



France has just lost her most famous apiarist, Mr. George 

 De Layens, who died at Nice, from a stroke of apoplexy, Oct. 

 23, 1897. Mr. DeLayens was a single man. He was born 

 at Lille, Jan. 6, 1834. When young, he learned the me- 

 chanical arts and made several inventions. He then studied 

 botany and bee-culture. He publisht several works on these 

 sciences, some of them in collaboration with his cousin, Gas- 

 ton Bonnier, professor at the French Academy of Sciences, of 

 Paris. The " De Layens Hive" is one of the most popular 

 hives In France. He was very plain In hismanuers; his 

 hands were always open to relieve the needy, and In his will 

 he gave most of his estate for purposes of benevolence. 



CuAs. Dadant. 



Mr. De Layens had gone to Nice to pass the winter 

 months for his health, and was continuing his botanical works, 

 profiting by the fine wiuither In taking pliotographs of plants. 



Uniting' the Two Unions.— It has been quite 

 awhile since anything has been said in these columns about 

 amalgamating the two Bee-Keepers' Unions. Perhaps every- 

 thing was said that needed to be said — and likely a little more 

 than was necessary, pro and con. But in the November 

 American Bee-Keeper the subject is toucht upon in an editorial 

 paragraph which we give here : 



"The question of amalgamating the National and the 

 United States Bee-Keepers' Unions, tho defeated by decree of 

 the National's members, is still quite a live one, and as it is 

 becoming more thoroughly understood, all signs now point 

 to the ultimate consummation of the project. There seems 

 Indeed to be no good reason why the two societies should not 

 join hands, and in their broader field of labor, under one con- 

 stitution, become a power of good to the bee-keeping frater- 

 nity. ' III union their is strength ;' uniting Uuions ought to 

 develop Herculean power." 



Just so. We are still of the opinion that the two Unions 

 should get together the coming winter, and prepare for doing 

 some telling work along the line of the prosecution of adul- 

 terators of honey. Nothing else, we believe, would so much 

 aid bee-keepers all over this great country of ours as a suc- 

 cessful attempt in enforcing some of the State anti-adultera- 

 tion laws already on the statute books. Why not all get to- 

 gether and form one strong body, then in solid phalanx march 

 against the enemy ? 



It will be found that also Mr. Wm. Muth-Easmussen, In 

 this very number of the Bee Journal, urges a uniting of the 

 two existing Bee-Keepers' Unions. Better do it soon, and be- 

 gin the work so necessary to be done in the Interest of every 

 honey-producer of the land. 



Exporlingf Honey. — The Pacific Bee Journal men- 

 tions a carload of amber honey shipt to Germany — the second 

 shipment there — and the intended shipment of a number of 

 cases experimentally to Glasgow, Scotland. Likely a good 

 thing for the Californians, and yet It seems a pity to have good 

 honey leave this country at 3% cents when millions of our in- 

 habitants never taste honey. 



New Honey-Dealing Firms here in Chicago 

 are sending out type-written letters somethlug after the 

 Uorrie-Wheadon pattern, tho not quite so glaringly crooked. 

 But we advise bee-keepers to be careful, and not be caught in 

 a trap. Some of these firms offer to buy for cash, and ask for 

 prices on honey based upon that consideration. We have 

 made enquiry concerning one firm, and learn that they have 

 no financial standing, having " no capital as yet Invested in 

 the partnership." 



The Old Union and Dr. Besse.— At the recent 

 Northwestern bee-convention, here In Chicago, the subject of 

 sweet clover came up, and also whether or not either Union 

 should aid a bee-keeper in case the authoilties, on the ground 

 of Its being a noxious weed, destroyed his sweet clover, or 

 some question to that elTect. Dr. Besse was present, and 

 when some one askt whether the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union was helping him. Dr. Miller thought not ; but some one 

 having reported the matter to Manager Newman, who wrote 

 Dr. Miller, the latter sends us the following: 



A RETRACTION. 



At the late Northwestern convention at Chicago, I said 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Union had done nothing to help 

 Dr. Besse, and to tho effect that if the Manager had done any- 

 thing of that kind it was, so far as I was informed, without 

 consulting the Advisory Board. Dr. Besse corrected me on 

 tho spot, as to nothing having been done for him, and Mr. 

 Newman informs me I am In error as to the entire statement. 

 I regret pxcc^edirigly having made a statement that might do 

 injustice to Manager Ni^wiiian. and hasten to say so in a man- 

 ner more public than that In which the statement was made. 

 As a matter of fact, I learn that Manager Newman has already 



